ANN ARBOR, Mich., city and county-seat of Washtenaw County, on the Huron Rivet and the Michigan Central, the Ann Arbor and Toledo railroads and the Detroit United Rail way. It is situated among the picturesque hills of southern Michigan, 38 miles from Detroi, and is regarded as one of the most desirable residential cities in the Middle West. Here is the seat of a famous school of learning, the University of Michigan (see MicumAx, Usnvmsrry or). Ann Arbor has, among prominee buildings, an auditorium with seating capacity of 5,000; a university hospital, a lacsncev. pathic and four other hospitals, county court house, post-office building,high school and numerous churches and public and private schools, two schools of music, two li braries. It is the business centre of a large agricultural and region and an important shipping point. It has ex tensive manufactures of agricultural imple ments, furniture, pumps, engines, automobile accessories, laces and curtains, steel ballbear ings, boilers, lumber products, organs, pianos.
flour, wagons, etc. The United States cerans of 1914 reported 75 manufacturing establish ments of factory grade, employing 1,079 per sons, of whom 842 were wage earners, receiving a total of $516,000 annually. The capital em ployed was $2,888,000, and the value of the year's output was $2,603,000; of this, $1,301,000 was added by manufacture. The Barton Darn furnishes water power, producing electric energy sufficient for the city and surrounding territory. The city has an extensive electric light system, waterworks plant and electric traction lines connecting with Jackson, Kala mazoo, Battle Creek, Detroit and other cities The waterworks are owned by the city. It has daily and weekly newspapers and one national bank, three savings banks and two branch banks. It was originally settled in 1824 and was incorporated as a city in 1851. Pop. (1890) 9,431 • (1900) 14,509; (1910) 14,817; (1914) 14,500, besides 7,000 students.